The following posts are the result of my 2nd time of photography from the archeological site of Takht-e Soleymān in north-western Iran, near the town of Takab.

This is a general view of the site with the lake in the foreground and the remains and ruins of Eyvan-e Khosro and northern-remains in the background…

Takht-e Soleymān

The following posts are the result of my 2nd time of photography from the archeological site of Takht-e Soleymān in north-western Iran, near the town of Takab. This is a general view of the site with the lake in the foreground and the remains and ruins of Eyvan-e Khosro and northern-remains in the background… I’ve added a rather complete amount of information about every corner of this site before in these —> 20-Photos of previous Takht-e Soleymān photography… It seems my progress has been acceptable since when I had first photographed them back in the last day of August of 2007…

Takht-e Soleymān

This one’s one of my favorites…

This is the Anahita Temple, as seen while looking towards west and the Prison of Solomon (Zendan-e Soleyman, Zendane Soleiman, Zendan-e Div…) in the background…

You can see the columns of the Western Hall which was used for the preparation of Royals for the ceremonies and is located next to the dining room…

Takht-e Soleymān

This is a panoramic view of the Ilkhanid structures on the west side of the lake and again the Portico of Khosro far in the background…

This is also another view of the same Portico of Khosro (Eyvan-e Khosro)

This is also another view of the same Portico of Khosro (Eyvan-e Khosro)

This shows the Ceremonial way which connects the western side of Azargoshnasb fire-altar with the eastern sides… I’ve heard that this corridor were known as the Corridor of Rebirth, rebirth as a symbol for spiritually being reborn and being cleansed from all the impurities while passing from the region of darkness (west ) to where the sun always arises (east), and the narrow structure of it somehow resembled the process of being born from the womb of the mother to this world… Since I had posted a photo of this in my previous photography from Takht-e Soleyman, I thought that I may post a new one here too…

Ilkhanid ruins of the Takht-e Soleyman archeological site which are located on the south-west of it…

A panoramic view of the northern remains of the Takht-e Soleyman site…

Therefore, the bodhisattvas are all revered, respected, worshiped, and looked upon as we look upon God in the West – as saviors, as the Christian looks upon Jesus, or Muslims upon Mahdi.

Underneath this myth there is a profound philosophical idea going back to the Hindu philosophy of advaita and non-duality – namely, that the apparent dualism of “I” and “thou,” of the knower and the known, the subject and the object, is unreal. So, also, the apparent duality between maya, the world illusion, and reality is unreal. The apparent duality or difference between the enlightened and the ignorant person is unreal. So, the apparent duality of bondage and deliverance, or liberation, is unreal.

Just as the great Ramana Maharshi has beautifully stated in the 23′th, 24′th & 25′th of his great masterpiece of the Hindu Tradition, a true modern Hindu scripture; “Upadesa Saram“, that:

23-There is only one Being that can know Reality. That one-only Being is itself Reality and is itself Consciousness.

24-Both Creator and creature are essentially one and the same Reality. Their apparent differences are due only to differences in form and levels of knowledge.

25-When the creature abandons its illusory individual form and recognises itself as without attributes, it sees the Creator as its own true Self.

This natural event is called “Vipakaya” in archaic Sanskrit language, also “AbhA mArga” in common Sanskrit, and it is considered as one of the sacred & holy manifestation of our world by Buddhists & Hinduists & most of the far-east philosophies or as the late Alan Watts preferred to call “Ways of Liberation”, by which Bodhisattva’s are provided with a Sacred-Gate for their voluntary descent to earth, for helping the other creatures & human-beings in their path to Moksha, while singing along the Sacred Song of the Liberation; “Moksha-Gita”…